Len Bias

Chad Heslup high-tailed it up to Minneapolis a few years ago, to continue to develop his connections with that city's entrenched independent hip-hop scene, but his roots as a rapper are in Chicago, where he began. He returns to the city this weekend to play a record release for his latest, "Instant 4 Eternity," which as he explained last week, is about memory. Here is an edited transcript of that conversation.

Q: What's the big idea behind the album?

A: Artists, especially, we try to hold on to moments that last forever, and I tried to do that with this record. Good moments you try to make them last forever, but the worst moments are often out of our...

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